Category: Blog

Live Healthy, Help Fight COVID

Government data suggests healthy people have a better chance of beating COVID and avoiding hospitalization than non-healthy people. Shouldn’t we be talking about healthy living more?

Learning Pods: A New Approach To Education

Contributor to Second Street.org, Paige MacPherson discusses what “learning pods” are, how they can help parents and other findings in her new policy brief on K-12 education.

Maurice and Ilene Thevenot share their experience with virtual health care

Since COVID-19 emerged in Canada, governments have opened up more opportunities for patients to videoconference with their doctors or speak with them on the phone. Today we spoke with Maurice and Ilene Thevenot, two senior citizens who live two hours south west of Winnipeg, about their experience.

Hospital cafeterias lose millions!

At SecondStreet.org we recently interviewed our student interns, Catherine Shvets and Gage Haubrich, about hospital cafeterias losing millions of dollars.

What are the pros and cons of video conferencing with doctors?

We recently spoke with Dr. Lester Liao from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto to get his take on video conferencing. Dr. Lester Liao explains through his professional experience the pros of this developing technology, as well as the shortfalls.

A look at Australia’s health care system

International studies routinely show Australia’s health care system outperforms Canada and the United States. At SecondStreet.org we took a look at what Australia is doing differently.